THE BATTALION
LETTERS
TO THE
EDITOR
To the Editor:
You seem to take a g-ood deal of
delight in telling other people how
to live and perhaps that is yuor busi
ness, but it seems to me that you ex
ceed your duty when you arrogate
to yourself the right to inform all of
those who may happen to enjoy an
occasional drink of “Scotch” on oc
casions.
I have been presented a fine bottle
of Scotch whiskey for Christmas and
it is before me as I sit at my type
writer and indite this letter to you.
It bears the label of Sandy McDon
ald—a good, fair, well-bodied liquor
which I am assured was bought be
fore the war and has been in my
friend’s cellar ever since. What right
has any form of law to make me • a
criminal if I partake of this gift as
it was intended that I do by the giver.
I claim that any such law is an in
vasion of my personal liberty. I
notice that you have referred often
in your excellent column to the so-
called Bill of Rights which secures
to all men and women certain inalien
able rights to their personal liberty, |
which as you say, are not inconsistent j
with the rights of others. How do you |
reconcile your statements ?
I have just tasted this bottle of liq
uor, I will confide to you, and I can
not see where or how I am invading
the rights of any other person on
earth. I find it excellent. It warms
my stomach; it inspires my thought
I cannot feel, Mr. Editor, that I have
wronged the community or added to
the lawlessness of the general society
in so doing. It makes me tired to be
classed as criminal for any such
occasion, and I notify you that be
fore long, there will be a revolt
against the sort of stuff that you are
writing.
Just to show my independence of
such truck as you are writing, I
have taken another drink of the afore
said most jubilant Sandy McDonald,
and I will say to you that it is about
-rnsL.
Si
It takes more than a
degree to make an engineer
It’s
pretty hard to keep your mind
on a study of fatigue-of-cable-sheath-
alloys, when you are thinking of the
joys of artistic creation. And why try?
There is work aplenty in this world
for engineers and artists, for doc
tors, lawyers, builders, salesmen.
The difficultyis that the individual
doesn ’t al ways connect up with /i/s work.
Too many college men never take
the trouble really to analyze themselves.
Self examination now with the aid of
your faculty ad vis or may save years
of groping later on. And at grad-
n uation it will help you off to a
g° od start -
SINCE 1 8 S 2 MANUFACTURERS FOR THE BELL SYSTEM
as smooth a drink as a criminal ever
put into his system. The second
drink, which I shall soon follow by a
third, makes me more certain that
those who feel their systems require
stimulant, should band together; or
ganize, and start a campaign to
floor this Volstead busienss if it can
be done.
Now, Mr. Editor, I am no bum and
you can’t make me a bum. I like a
little drink now and then and I have
taken a third or maybe it is a fourth
and I am moi’e than ever convenced
that any man thqt doen’t is a big idi
ot. You say that this evabio of the
law is producing a state of affairs in
our Grear nand Glorious Kuntry. You
are wronh! This ciuntry is jess as
good as it ever was and was a great
deal better country and I will leabe
it to you f iit wsn8t, when we had
free rum.
I wan8t to say to you that this
Pipes save no
midnight oil
TTF PIPES made the man, anybody
at all could rise in the world just
by smoking a few pounds of Edge-
worth. But pipes do not make the man.
Men make the pipe—most men do.
Somewhat depends on the individual,
more on the pipe, and the tobacco is
most important of all. Things must
be congenial.
Edgeworth is a congenial tobacco,
cool, slow-burning, fully flavored.
Edgeworth has poise, kindly good
nature, real tobacco personality —
Edgeworth welcomes new friends.
Many a good man has been pledged
to pipes by Edgeworth alone.
Like to meet Edgeworth? Just ask
with the coupon—and the postman
will bring your first few pipefuls of
the genuine, three years seasoned if
it’s a day. Our treat, if you please.
Others have found Edgeworth and
quit their discontent.
So may it be with you!
EDGEWORTH
Edgeworth is a careful blend
of good tobaccos — selected
especially for pipe-smoking. Its
quality and flavor never
change. Buy it anywhere
— “Ready Rubbed” or
‘‘Plug Slice”—15^ pocket
package to pound humi
dor tin.
Laras 8s Bro. Co., Richmond, Va.
I’ll try your Edgeworth. And I’ll try
It in a good pipe.
(Witness my seal)
(and my scat of learning)
(and my posiofficc and stale!
Now let the Edgeworth come! V